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"Miracle" Cannabis Oil: May Treat Cancer, But Money and the Law Stand in the Way of Finding Out

R.I.P. Steve Brodsky, Beloved S.F. Music Manager and Promoter

Steve Brodsky, an artist manager, show promoter, and executive who left his mark on many aspects of the San Francisco music scene, passed away Friday night of complications from leukemia. Among other endeavors, Brodsky worked with local acts like Wallpaper., Midi Matilda, Capital Cities, and others ... More >>

Manti Te'o Girlfriend Hoax: How Did Nobody At Stanford Catch On?

There are two basic questions about The Manti Te'o Dead Girlfriend Hoax that we all want to know: 1. Was he, for real, completely fooled all the way up until December 6, as he says? With time, and enough pre-draft NFL investigations, that'll all probably come out. More interesting, though: 2. H ... More >>

Marijuana Is Bad For Your Cajones, Researchers Say

And here we thought marijuana was supposed to make cancer patients feel a hell of a lot better. However, a new study claims the magic plant might actually have some unpleasant link to cancer. As our sister paper, LA Weekly, notes this morning SoCal researchers say that dudes who indulge in marijuana ... More >>

Local Punk Doug "Sluggo" Cawley on His Son Blixa's Leukemia and Tonight's Team Blixa Benefit at Bottom of the Hill

Bay Area punk musician Sluggo, aka Doug Cawley, has worn many hats over his more than 20 years on the local scene. Besides being the principle force behind over a decade of hilarious, cross-dressing trash punk with faux-geriatric reprobates The Grannies, the guitarist also played in '90s outfit Ain' ... More >>

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"Boobs & Booze" Event to Raise Funds for Breast Cancer Walk

One of San Francisco's largest women-owned businesses is sponsoring a fundraiser tonight to benefit local breast cancer research.That's right, the "Avon Walk for Breast Cancer" is right around the corner. And businesses like the Sage Group are gearing up to participate in the 39-mile trek next month ... More >>

Proposition 29 Results Are Close Enough to Make You Want to Chain Smoke

It's all gotta be part of Big Tobacco's plan. Tobacco companies pumped more than $46 million into the campaign against Proposition 29, which would increase the tax on cigarette packs by $1.Perhaps they could have donated more money. Instead, they might have struck the exact minimum amount necessary ... More >>

Prop. 29 Losing Voter Support, Though Cigarette Tax Remains Popular

What can you get for $42 million? A penthouse apartment at the top of the St. Regis. Six years of Adonal Foyle. Roy Lichtenstein's peephole painting. Also, a 14 percent drop in support for Proposition 29, which would raise the cigarette tax and fund cancer research. In March, a poll by the Publi ... More >>

He'd Die to Be Famous

Eric Quezada, Former Supervisor Candidate, Seeks Alternative Cancer Treatment in Germany

Eric Quezada is fighting cancer overseas. ​Looking at Eric Quezada's career over the last couple years, you certainly wouldn't have guessed he'd been fighting cancer since 2004. The long-time Mission activist and executive director with Dolores Street Community Services ran a failed campaign for s ... More >>

Beer a Secret Weapon in Breast Cancer Fight, Hopes Breastfest

Breastfest​Fighters of breast cancer are again pulling out their secret weapon: beer. The annual Breastfest will soon be upon us, with more than 40 breweries, several hundred beers, and live music aligning on July 2 to fight one of the most feared diseases. We can't say truthfully that the mo ... More >>

Tonight: See Great Local Bands, Help Indie Mart Founder Kelly Malone Battle Cancer

Kelly Malone​It would be easy enough to say, "Oh, yeah, the Sandwitches, Royal Baths, Art Museums, Carletta Sue Kay, and Social Studies are playing a gig tonight, you should go." But this is even easier, because tonight's show at the Independent is a benefit to help someone of great importance ... More >>

Cell Phones Are as Carcinogenic as Coffee

If the death rays don't get you, the talcum powder will.​Paranoid San Franciscans who have long sought affirmation that radio waves threaten public health finally got a hat tip from the World Health Organization, which now says cell phones are "possibly carcinogenic."But before you throw your iPho ... More >>

National Cancer Institute Says Marijuana Is a Cancer-Fighter, Then Backpedals

This will help fight cancer, until the feds say it won't​So you think the federal government prevaricates over what to do in Libya? As mixed as many of the government's messages are, the feds really can't take a solid stance when it comes to marijuana. Earlier this month, the National Cancer Inst ... More >>

Apple Board Pressured to Say Who Will Replace Steve Jobs

Who could replace him?​Last week, photos of a pale and gaunt-looking Steve Jobs circulated the Internet; Apple stocks dropped and investors panicked about the state Jobs' health. With that in play, investor groups are pressuring the Apple board to tell us who will replace him. The Apple CEO has be ... More >>

Fire Truck Circling the Globe for Charity, Stops in San Francisco

The engine that could​There's no better way to shakedown people for money -- and be sure to get it -- than putting on firefighters hat and don the trouser-jacket combination. But here's a guy from London, England who has decided to skip wearing the turnout gear and instead raise money for lung can ... More >>

Go Nancy! Go Nancy!

Workers' comp covers retired cops who get cancer

Giants To Bag It at Potrero Center Safeway Today

www.mccoveychronicles.comHe will bag you​The sensation of having a multimillionaire bag your groceries is a rare one, indeed, so rare that The Snitch has no idea what such bliss could possibly feel like. And we won't until later today at the Potrero Center Safeway -- which was once a baseball fiel ... More >>

Study: Elderly Women With Dementia Subjected to Unneeded Mammograms

Breast cancer, a UCSF study claims, is not always a woman's biggest problem​A U.C. San Francisco study published last week in the American Journal of Public Health counter-intuitively posits two fascinating conclusions. A survey of thousands of women nationwide indicates that, among elderly women ... More >>

No Beastie Boys at Outside Lands: MCA Has Cancer

Bad news from the Beastie Boys camp this morning. Adam "MCA" Yauch has been diagnosed with cancer--he has a tumor in his left parotid (salivary) gland. The good news is doctors found the cancerous tumor early, it doesn't sound to have spread to other parts of his body, and surgeons and are prepared ... More >>

Chronic City: California, Cannabis, and Cancer -- Cause for Concern?

norml.orgCancer cure, or cause?When the bureaucrats over at the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) classified marijuana smoke as a carcinogen last Friday, it predictably made headlines worldwide. But how much does the classification really mean, and should medical us ... More >>

Good News For Your Prostate: You Can Have Your Omega-3 Fatty Acid And Eat it Too

UCSF researchers have taken this off the prostate blacklistAnyone creating a videogame football roster from scratch knows how it goes: You make him strong, he's going to be slow; you give him speed he's going to be easily tackled; you give him arm strength, he's going to get busted mid-season for a ... More >>

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Hospital's Hindsight: 20/20

Hospital removes man's cancerous prostate. Two months later, doctors say he didn't have cancer after all

Free the Science!

A UCSF professor organizes a scientific boycott to protest apparent censorship of a study that suggests a link between working at IBM and dying of cancer

Beaming in on The Cure

A new type of radiation therapy, developed by a Bay Area company, shows astonishing promise in fighting cancer

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Week of August 7, 2002

The Revolutionary Test for Lung Cancer

... the medical establishment doesn’t want you to have. Yet.

Dying to Know

As a young doctor's tragic fate makes clear, a lack of information about hepatitis B has put many Asian-American lives at risk

The Cheetah Club

How a rare group of spotted patients and a small cadre of persistent doctors could help change the face of cancer research

Genes Without Frontiers

The so-called gene chip could revolutionize the way we treat cancer patients. That is, if biotech firms don't keep it out of doctors' hands.

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South San Francisco biotech firm Genentech just says no to women battling breast cancer

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Breast cancer activists rage at Genentech for withholding an experimental drug

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